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What’s in a Name? Reconstructionist Judaism is Finding Out.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Reconstructionist Judaism has always been something of a stepchild of the major Jewish denominations. It’s the smallest and newest of the the big four, and while it has a track record for innovations that are often absorbed into the...
How New York Times Editor Bari Weiss Found Herself at the Center of the #MeToo Debate
NEW YORK (JTA) — It’s the rare newspaper op-ed that breaks through into popular culture. Rarer still is a “Saturday Night Live” skit based on such an essay. But a recent piece by Bari Weiss enjoyed that perhaps dubious distinction. Her essay,...
Oprah Winfrey Probably Would be a Pro-Israel President
(JTA) — Because this is the world we live in, buzz is now building around Oprah Winfrey running for president in 2020. Winfrey sparked the speculation with a speech at the Golden Globes in which she praised women who have come forward with stories of sexual...
Jews Make News, But When is it Jewish News?
NEW YORK (JTA) — “Is So-and-So Jewish? How Jewish is she? Find out if she’s Jewish.” I often joke that JTA reporters and anti-Semitic bloggers write the same stories, only with different headlines. We proudly search down Jewish celebrities to...
Why Some Rabbis Used Their High Holiday Sermons to Bash Trump – and Others Demurred
NEW YORK (JTA) — As spiritual leader of one of the most widely known Reform synagogues in America, Rabbi Joshua Davidson tries not to be divisive on the holiest days of the year. So on the High Holidays of years past, when he stood before thousands of...
Apologies and Non-Apologies in the Year of Our Trump 5777
WASHINGTON (JTA) – There are apologies, there are non-apologies and there are apologies that never were. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are approaching: We are in the season of repentance and its most apt expression, apologizing to our fellow women and men. The Trump...
Top 10 Moments That Mattered to Jews in 5777
NEW YORK (JTA) — This Jewish year was not a quiet one, to say the least. From the tumultuous first eight months of Donald Trump’s presidency, to a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers, to a neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville that turned...
Should NYC Remove Statues of its Anti-Semitic Dutch Governor?
(JTA) — Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson … and Peter Stuyvesant? One of these things is not like the others. Amid the impassioned debate over whether, when and how to remove statues memorializing the Confederacy, an Israeli nonprofit is seeking a...
Only Nuclear-Qualified, Navy Veteran, Transgender Rabbi in U.S. isn’t Happy
By Anna Selman WASHINGTON, D.C. (JTA) — On Wednesday, in our offices near this city’s Dupont Circle, the staff at Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. were opening the mail when a request came in from a veteran asking that we change her first name on our records from...Upcoming Events
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Baltimore Jewish Film Festival
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Baltimore Jewish Film Festival
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The Baltimore Jewish Film Festival includes international films of Jewish interest. Here’s the schedule: April 8, 2 p.m.: “Body & Soul: An American Bridge” at Reginald F. Lewis Museum April 10, 7:30 p.m.: “Ben Gurion,[...]
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Mixology Tisch
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Intended to increase the joy of Shabbat, this event mixes three craft cocktails with three shots of Torah. Each month, a mixologist demonstrates how to mix drinks while three short pieces of Torah are explored.
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